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Forecaster Met Eireann warned that gale force southerly winds will bring risks of power outages and difficult travelling conditions. Strong gusts to sweep across Ireland as Storm Kathleen hits ...
April 6, 2024 at 2:49 PM. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind [BBC Weather Watcher/snaphappydave] Dozens of flights have been cancelled as Storm Kathleen brings strong ...
Multiple “danger to life” weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office as Storm Debi is set to hit the UK within hours, bringing heavy rain and severe gale-force winds. Weather warnings ...
The Met Office was established on 1 August 1854 [5] as a small department within the Board of Trade under Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy as a service to mariners. The loss of the passenger vessel, the Royal Charter, and 459 lives off the coast of Anglesey in a violent storm in October 1859 led to the first gale warning service.
For a windstorm to be named, the United Kingdom's Met Office, Ireland's Met Eireann, or the Netherlands' Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) have to issue an amber weather warning, preferably for wind, but a storm can also be named for amber warnings of rain and snow (e.g. Storm Arwen in 2021).
Storm Eunice. Storm Eunice ( / ˈjuːnɪs /) (known as Storm Zeynep in Germany and Storm Nora in Denmark) was an extremely powerful extratropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds that was part of the 2021–2022 European windstorm season. Storm Eunice was named by the UK Met Office on 14 February 2022. A red weather warning was issued on 17 ...
The orange warning issued by forecaster Met Eireann for counties Cork and Kerry ended at 1pm, for Waterford at 4pm, while it remained in place for Wexford and Wicklow until 8pm as the storm ...
An additional Status Orange wind warning was issued for counties Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare, valid between 31 October 2020 08:00 and 31 October 2020 16:00. In both warnings, mean wind speeds of 65 to 80 km/h (40 to 50 mph; 35 to 43 kn) were expected, with severe and damaging gusts of up to 130 km/h (81 mph; 70 kn) also expected.